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London: Folio Society, 1999. Attractive reprint of this popular account of the history of archaelogical exploration, with sections on Pompeii, Troy, Mycenae, Crete; Egypt; Assyria, Babylonia, Sumeria; Aztecs, Mayas, Toltecs; Hittites. Though dated, it remains a vivid & inspirational account. Includes brief bibliography, many color & b/w photos of artifacts, reproductions of vintage illustrations. Large decorated hardcover in slipcase, as… Read more about this item

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. Scholarly monograph on the Powhatan and Conoy chiefdoms of the Potomac Valley region around the time of their invasion by Captain John Smith, their rise from their mutual Chicacoan roots & fall in the colonial era. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor edgewear. Text clean; xiii, [3], 267… Read more about this item

New York: Disinformation Company, 2006. Examination of the sudden appearance of art & culture in humanity, and its possible causes, including hallucinogenic concoctions, alien visitors, something else? Hancock is an independent researcher who traveled to see stone age art and sample hallucinogens among native users and in laboratories. Stout hardcover, as pictured; the first American edition - published the previous… Read more about this item

Washington: [USGPO], 1875. Original printing of these early accounts of Canyon de Chelly & other Ancestral Pueblo sites by trained archaeologists working with the Smithsonian, including architecture, petroglyphs, pottery, and human remains, extracted from the Bulletin of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Vol. II, No. I. Both Holmes & Jackson were important explorers & artists influential in… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1959. Technical monograph on the minerals & mineral formations of this county, the northeast tip of Minnesota, along Lake Superior. Minnesota Geological Survey Bulletin 39. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Book shows light wear, bumping to corners, bookplate of Beloit College geology professor Richard C. Stenstrom inside front cover, 17 folding charts (1-16… Read more about this item

New York: Geological Society of America, 1948. Technical monograph on mineral formations, their structure, petrography, weathering & other aspects. Geological Society of America Memoir 29. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Book shows some wear, bumping & rubbing to corners, some tanning to endsheets, large folding color chart in rear pocket. Text clean; x, 182 pages, 7 b/w plates,… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Author, 1935. Scarce first edition of this manual of decorative motifs of Central & South America, with 500 designs on 130 plates, from Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, British West Indies, United States, Santo Domingo, Costa Rica, Columbia, Chile, & Cuba, origins noted in the captions; including patterns, designs, sculpture, architecture, all drawn or sketched by… Read more about this item

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1929. Inspired by polar explorers Amundsen & Shackleton, de Prorok mounted several expeditions (this one using motor cars) to North Africa in the 1920s, though his methods & results are doubted by modern scholars. Here he discusses dead explorers of the Sahara, the discovery & looting of the tomb of Tuareg queen Tin Hinan, dead cities… Read more about this item

Exeter: University of Exeter, 1983. Based on the author's doctoral thesis, a study of the potters, manufacture, and marketing of pottery made & exported from the ports of Barnstaple & Bideford, mostly from documentary sources but also from archaelogical evidence gathered both in the UK and its colonies. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, minor… Read more about this item

Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019. Scholarly monograph studying competing interpretations of the Moldovan archaeological record, one designed to justify Moldova's inclusion in the Soviet/Slavic sphere of control, one more influenced by Romanian archaeological literature, arguing the Slavs in Moldova were not the dominant group. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, minor rubbing to corners. Text clean; xv, blank, 310… Read more about this item

Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017. Final volume only of Spink's monumental work on the Buddhist caves in Maharashtra, carved and decorated in two periods around two thousand years ago. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Light wear, corners bumped; minor binding flaw to front endsheets. Text clean; xxii, 431 pages; index, bibliography, figures, many color photos, some b/w photos, plans.. First… Read more about this item

New York: A. Bruderhausen, 1928. Archaeology & architecture of the ancient center of the Roman empire. Hardcover, as pictured. First American edition, expanded by the author in translation. Light wear to book, minor chips to spine ends, spine faded; ink names (of classicists Herbert & Evelyn Howe) on free endsheet; a bit of tanning & foxing. Text clean; xii, 100… Read more about this item

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Scholarly study of changes to the Caddoan culture in the wake of European incursion from around 1520 to 1800; the author argues that the culture was already deeply changed before Europeans began describing it. Hardcovedr in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket rubbed with small spots & light stains, spine a bit… Read more about this item

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pioneering study of microscopic analysis of stone tools (British, in this case), which the author asserts is useful in determining they ways in which they were used by prehistoric hominids. First edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover, lacking the jacket (as issued?), as pictured. Shows some wear, corners rubbed &… Read more about this item

Columbia, MO: Missouri Archaeological Society / University of Missouri, 1974. Third printing of the first edition of Bass's classic guide to the understanding of human skeletal remains, originally published three years earlier. Bass is best-known as the founder of the 'Body Farm', and for his work helping police agencies determine causes & times of death in high-profile cases. Paperback, as… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Scholarly investigation of places noted in Book II of The Iliad, using ancient & modern sources, assessing their possible historicity. Hardcover, as pictured. Light wear to book, no jacket. Text clean; xvi, 191 pages + 12 b/w plates; index, maps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

London/Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. Technical study of statistical methods in analysis of fossil pollen grains & spores, applicable to other forms of stratigraphic analysis. Hardcover as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, corners bumped, some marginal ink notation, rubberstamped name of University of Wisconsin geologist Louis J. Maher, Jr. on free endsheet. Maher was a notable palynologist, with… Read more about this item

Beloit, WI: Logan Museum - Beloit College, 1928. Account of this European & North African people, the first European early modern humans, who largely replaced with the Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago; intended in part to allow readers to appreciate the large collection of French Paleolithic artifacts recently acquired by the Logan Museum at Beloit College, which still holds a… Read more about this item

Beloit, WI: Museums of Beloit College, 1992. Scholarly account of the 1920s acquisition and contents of "one of the single most important collections of French Paleolithic artifacts (ca. 21,500 objects) outside of France"; twelve articles in all: two on the history of the collection and ten on some of its contents. The nucleus of the collection of the Logan Museum… Read more about this item

New York: Moorhead, Bond & Co., 1868. The author, a Scottish geologist, appears to argue that humankind was created by a higher power by adaption of a few basic designs, evolved towards complexity - not in a single 'creation' event; that physical surroundings also alter created beings; that the white race is clearly superior to others, and thus the most… Read more about this item